St. Landry democrat., 1887-10-01

At the annual reunion of the Sixteenth
Connecticut Regiment held in Hartford,
there was received back the regime,I.:,i
guidon captured in 1864 by the Second Ala
bama Regiment. Resolutions were adopted
full of love and fraternal greeting" which,
with letter of similar nature from Col
onel Cheney, of the Sixteenth Connecticut,
will be forwarded to the Second Alabama.
The Texas fever prevails among cattle in
the neighborhood of Pittsburg The disease
developed in herd of thirty-two animals
bought at the Pittsburg stock-yards by Ma
trOna dealer two weeks ago. After buying
them the purchaser killed twenty and sold
the meat. Since then the disease has ap-
peared, and nine Of the animals have died.
The remainder have been ordered killed by
State Veterinarian Edge.
Printed petitions to Governor Oglesby, Of
Illinois, appealing for communication of SEN
tence for the condemned Anarchists are
being sent to all parts of the country.
Jerome NJ. Manning, of Cambridge, Mass,
has brought suit against Asa French ct al,
judges of the Court of Commissioners Of
Alabama Claims, to recover 100000 dam
ages. Manning is lawyer and was debarred
by the court from practicing before them.
He claims that the courts action was illegal.
Edward Duffy, James Barrett and William
Harding, while repairing Baltimore and
Ohio railroad bridge near Wheeling, were
knocked by yard engine to the river bed
below and killed.
The engineer of passenger train on the
Jefferson City branch of the Chicago and
Alton railroad, when near Guthrie, Mo,
discovered an obstruction on the track. He
stopped the train and found heavy iron
tsh-plate fastened across the track. The
train proceeded cautiously, and about two
miles further on found the track again OBJ
structed by pile of ties. These were re-
moved, and the train proceeded without
accident.
1t has been discovered that two heavy gold
bracelets, brought from Cyprus by General
Di CesnOla, had been stolen from case in
the Metropolitan Museum, in New York.
The gold in the bracelets was worth $780, and
that is only small portion of their real
value.
The trial of Cirilo Pouble, who was charged
in Havana with conspiring against the gov
ernment, was ended by verdict of guilty.
He will be imprisoned for three and half
years. Pouble is an American citizen, and
has been in Jail three years already.
In the United States Circuit Court, at Bal
timore, upon bill in equity filed by the
American Bell Telephone Company against
William c. Turnbull, Judges Bond and
Morris ordered that, until hearing of the
motion, the defendant be restrained
from directly or indirectly making,
using, or furnishing to others for
use, any electric-speaking telephones or
telephone apparatus whatever, embracing
and embodying the inventions and improve
ments, or any material parts thereof, claimed
in the letters patent Of the complainant cor
poration granted to Alexander Graham
Bell" The 1st of November next is fixed
for the hearing. 1t is said the object of this
is to shut off the Chinese telephone scheme,
with which Count Mitkiewicz has recently
been prominently connected through the
press, in Washington and elsewhere.
In Wilmington, Del, Henry Riedel until
recently weaver in the Wilmington Mills,
shot and killed his wife and nine-year-old
aimed bullet at himself, but it glanced off
the skull, making wound which is not con-
sidered dangerous.
At Ludlow, KY, Robert Plummer was
assaulted by George Grummeiser, while both
men were at work on a railroad bridge
Plummer drew revolver and killed his as
sailant He had recently been promoted to
a position from which Grummeser had been
At Reading, Pa, the jury in the case of
George W. Kershner charged with misap-
$4,000 of the county funds,
rendered verdict of not guilty and COM
pelling the county to pay portion of the
costs. 1t is now probable that the prosecu-
ton will be abandoned against the other
officials who were indicted for a similar
offense. They have all paid into the county
treasury the necessary money.
1t is reported from Duluth that package
Of money, containing $4,000, has mysteri-
ously disappeared from the Union National
Bank of that city. None of the EMPLOYEES
are suspected, the theft being attributed to
outsiders.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has de-
,ided, in the case of Mary Stylor, of Water
own, against the Odd Fellows Mutual Life
Insurance Company, that such companies
Ire liable for losses, even though poicyhold-
srs may be owing two assessments, provid-
ng the company had previously received as
overdue.